Cloudera Sessions - Dubai, United Arab Emirates

About

Join us at Cloudera Sessions as like-minded data innovators from around Dubai come together for a comprehensive day of exploring the different stages of the data journey.

Whether you are trying to increase operational efficiencies, discover and automate analytics, or transform your industry through unique data applications, we will walk you through our first hand experience of helping organisations build a modern architecture in order to make analytics pervasive across their organisation.

Cloudera Sessions 2016
Dubai | 1st November 2016

Agenda

8:30AM - Breakfast in the partner pavilion

9:00AM - Keynote: Big Value with Big Data

Data is transforming industries and creating massive value for businesses. It can help us better understand our world, build innovative products and services, and manage operational risk and compliance. Taking advantage of these opportunities, including the internet of things, requires a modern approach to working with data, and success takes more than just applying new technologies like Apache Hadoop. Join us to learn how to get started on your journey to a data strategy.

12:00PM - Presentation - Smart Cities

This session will ably demonstrate how a collaboration of tools from Cloudera and Microsoft can quickly enable IoT scenarios to bring rapid insight

Kevin Ashby - Application Platform Product Manager

12:45PM - Lunch

2:00PM - Breakouts

Hadoop and Spark Essentials

New to Hadoop and Spark or still need to sharpen your understanding? Trying to figure out what Sqoop, Flume or Hive are and what they can be used for? If so, you're not alone. Hands on Hadoop and Spark is the ultimate guide to help you take your understanding to the next level. Join Cloudera as we take you through the origins of Hadoop, discuss existing and new projects, what they are used for, and how you can apply Hadoop and Spark to modernize your data architecture.

Tariq Salameh - Sales Engineer, Cloudera

Apache Hadoop Meets Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity has become the topic of conversation for organizations across every industry as attack surfaces have expanded with the digital, social, and mobile world. As it becomes more difficult to protect organizations, professionals are turning to new technologies in order to avoid massive reputational, monetary, and intellectual property losses. In recent years a convergence of factors have occurred that is putting Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark at the forefront of the cybersecurity arms race.

Chris Darvill - Director Sales Engineering, Cloudera

John Handelaar - EMEA VP, Securonix

Driving a True Customer 360 with Apache Hadoop

Organizations spanning all industries are in pursuit of Customer 360, which aims to integrate and enrich customer information across multiple channels, systems, devices and products in order to improve the interaction experience and maximize the value delivered. With an Enterprise Data Hub, powered by Apache Hadoop, organizations can effectively stitch together a true 360-degree view of their customer base that goes beyond the traditional segmentation attributes in order to deliver personalized offerings, improve marketing effectiveness and drive down churn.

Ammar Fayoumi - Sales Engineer, Cloudera

Victor Coustenoble - Sales Engineer, Trifacta

4:00PM - Reception & Networking

Speakers

Amr Awadallah, Ph.D.

Chief Technology Officer, Cloudera

Before co-founding Cloudera in 2008, Amr (@awadallah) was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Accel Partners. Prior to joining Accel he served as Vice President of Product Intelligence Engineering at Yahoo!, and ran one of the very first organizations to use Hadoop for data analysis and business intelligence. Amr joined Yahoo after they acquired his first startup, VivaSmart, in July of 2000. Amr holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, and a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Yigit Karabag

Information Management & Analytics Practice Manager, SAS

James Kinley

Principal Solutions Architect, Cloudera

Phill Radley

Chief Data Officer, BT

Phill Radley is a Physics Graduate with an MBA who has worked in IT and communications industry for 30 years , mostly with British Telecommunications plc. He is Chief Data Officer (acting) for BT at their Adastral Park campus in the UK.

Martin Hammer

Big Data Architect Emirates

Kevin Ashby

Application Platform Product Manager, Microsoft

Chris Darvill

Director Sales Engineering EMEA, Cloudera

Chris is the Director of Sales Engineering for Cloudera in EMEA. In this role Chris manages a team of of Sales Engineers who work with Cloudera's customers to help them understand how the Cloudera platform can help them address their business challenges and add value to their organisations. Chris is an experienced Sales leader with over 18 years’ experience working in the software sales industry, with the last 15 years spent in the Sales and Presales function. Prior to joining Cloudera Chris held a number of Presales management roles at companies such as SAP, Business Objects and Experian. He graduated from Loughborough University with a degree in Computer Science.